Canada's top 100( B.C 5 businesses

-(Bc Hydro) Offers maternity leavetop-up benefits to employees who are new mothers(to 85% of salary for 17 weeks). Helps employees prepare for retirement with a genourous contributions to a defined benefit pension plan.

-(6S marketing inc.) ensure all employees can share in the company's success by making their share purchases and profit sharing plans available to everyone. -awards a finacial bonus($1500) to a employee who refer someone successfully hired by the company.

-(AirG INC.)-awards a finacial bonus ($1500) to a employee who refers someone successfully hired by the company. -Gives employees three weeks of paid vacation after their first year on the job.

-(club Intrawest) -Gives employees a generous discounts at affilated resort destinations across North America. -Offers a flexible health benefits plan, so employees can customize the coverage the receive.

-(Davis LLP) -encourcages ongoing employees eduction with tuition subsidies for courses at outside institutions. -Gives associate lawyer personell maternity leave top up payments(too 100% for 17 weeks)

Sam walton

-Sam walton born March 29 1918

-Sam was a businessman born KingFisher Oklahoma

Sam's best knowing for founding WAL-MART

-Sam joined the military but left it in 1945.

-Walton opened a store with a loan of $20,000 and his $5,000 that he saved from the army

- His first store was opened in July 2 1962 in Rogers Arkansas

-It was called Wal-mart discount city store.

-Growing up during the depression Walton had numerous amounts of chores to help make the families finacial needs.

-When Walton graduated he was voted ''Most versatile Boy''

-after high school sam decided to attend college.

-He attended the university of missouri.

-Sam Died April 5 1992

arnold swartzenegger

-arnold was born July 30 1947

-arnold began weight lifting at the age 15

-He was awarded the title of Mr . Universe at age 22

-Swartzenegger won the Mr.olympia a total of seven times.

-arnold gained worldwide fame as Hollywood action film icon.

-arnolds nicknames range from the ''governator'', ''Austrian Oak'', and ''Arnie''

-As a republican he was first elected on October 7 2003.

-arnold was sworn in November 17 2003

-Arnold is married to journalist Maria Shiver.

-Together they have four children

-Swartzenger admitted to use of steriods in 1977 saying '' steroids were helpful to me in maintaining muscle siZe while on a strict diet in prepartion for a contest

hilton hotels

-hilton hotels is a worldwide of full service hotels and resorts founded by conrad hilton

-As of 2008 there are 533 hilton branded hotels across the world

- in 1943 the hilton hotels was the first hotel to go from coast to coast.

-the original price for a night was 43$

-the hilton hotel was founded in 1919 he in cisco texas.

-The Us hilton hotels were reunited with the international properties after more than 40 years in feb 06, when united states based hiltons hotels corporations purchased the hotel division of U.K based hilton group.

-In 1954 Hilton hotels bought the statler hotel chain.

home depot

-the home depot was founded in 1978 by bernie marcus and Aruthur Blank

- the home depot idea was to build home improvement warehhouses larger than any of their competitors facilities.

-Investment banker ken langone helped marcus and blank to secure the necessary capital.

- In 1979 the first two stores, built in spaces leased from J.C Penny opened in Atlanta June 21

-In 2000, after the retirement of Marcus and Blank , Robert Nardelli was appointed chairman, president and ceo.

-Nardelli was replaced in 2007 by Frank Blake.

-Bernie and i founded (The home depot) with a special vision to create a company that would keep alive the values that were important to us

ray kroc mcdonalds

ray kroc worked at a chicago radio station.

-the mcdonald brothers used assembly line for mass production of lightning speed fast food

-the quality was good the price was low

-april 15 1955 the first mcdonalds was opened dest plains illinois.-

-at the end of 1956 kroc opened 15 successful mcdonalds restaurants

-kroc and the mcdonalds brothers never had a good relationship.

- mcdonalds went public by april 1965.

mike kind's last lecture

1. Fear of failure
- failure is the key
- someones failure could be your success

2. Eyes Wide Open

3. Copy Cat.
-IPOD.
-GOOGLE

4. Circle Of Influence.
-business
-father

5. Rocky
-Do not quit

6. Never Stop Learning
-always try and learn something about your craft

The one that i could apply to my life or the one that i have applied to my life is Rocky(never quit).
It applies to my life by when i was grade 11 and i got kicked out of school and i gave up. The position that it put me in by quitting was not fun and it made me a full year of school behind and im not able to graduate on time. I Learned that by quitting it only hurt me in the end .

uro club

-dr.floyd seskin is asking for $25,000 for 51% of his business

-his idea is a club that looks like a 7 iron but made to pee into

- floyd seskin has his pee club TM

-floyd has invested $300,000 in his bizarre idea

-I dont see how this idea could work you my as well pee in the bush.

-kevin ended up taking the business invest 70% for $25,000 19% more than flyod's original offer

Pork barrel sauce

-6 months they've done everything they need to put there product on the shelves.

-they came second place in the nations best bbq sauce

-the guys took $50,000 for 50% but there original offer was 10% for $500,000

-the reasons why the sharks didnt want to get into there business was because this is a part time owner kind of idea becuase the guys are also politicians.

WRAPS & COOKIES 4 SALE

A. A problem we encountered was we ran out of wraps too early into the lunch on wednesday and thursday , so on friday we made double the wraps we did throughout the week and we made way more money.

B. I learned how to make a business plan and apply to a real life scenario . I learned how to make cookies and how to count money, i can apply all of those things to my life. The project was a great way to realize how much effort and thought needs to go into your business plan to be successful, make money, and of course satisfy your customers needs.

Social Entrepreneur

-tom went to argentina to relax drink wine and play polo and he was by some impoverished villages.

-none of the kids in there villages had shoes so he wanted to make them shoes.


-tom invested all of his time and money towards making shoes for kids without them.


-one some buys a pair of tom shoes he gives one free pair to a child in need somewhere in the world.




-tom goes to each of the places that buys the shoes and fits the shoes on the childrens foot and he say'' its all about the experience putting on the shoe to the childs foot


-since the begininng of toms shoes he has given away in 400,000


-toms company makes the shoes in argentina and ships them all over the world.

-he doesnt pay for advertising because his business sells itself

Developing the Plan

i. Developing a good businees plan can put you on the right track to success in a small business. A business plan summarizes a business mans proposed venture. It provides an organized
report of a company's goals and how the management intends to reach their goals.

ii. What to include in a business plan. Vision and mission statements, market analysis, Industry Overview, Competitive analysis, Marketing plan, Operational Plan, Organizational Plan, Finacial Plan, Growth Plan, Contingency plan, Executive summary.

iii. Some key attributes needed are having some goals and objectives, establish the business's goals and objectives and relate them to the invesment you seek. Some people to be successful advertise there business or there ideas as a entrepreneur